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NO INCIDENTS HAPPEN DURING OPPOSITION ACTIONS IN YEREVAN
Itar-Tass
March 2 2009
Russia
YEREVAN, March 1 (Itar-Tass) -- No incidents happened in the Sunday
march and rally of the Armenian radical opposition in Yerevan. The
actions, which drew 8,000 and 5,000 people correspondingly, were
initially banned by the city administration.
The participants laid flowers to the monument to first Soviet Armenian
premier Alexander Myasnikian, next to which protesters clashed with
the police on March 1-2, 2008.
Opposition leader and first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrossian
focused his speech on the world financial and economic crisis.
"Armenian authorities have not informed the public of the essence and
the scale of the economic crisis. Obviously, they want to calm down
people and to avoid panic," he said. "At first they were doing that
with false promises of the construction of a new nuclear power plant,
a railroad between Armenia and Iran and the creation of an all-Armenian
bank. Now they are telling people about the upcoming loans from Russia,
China and the World Bank."
The government will soon have to stop supporting the national currency,
which will go down abruptly and have harmful consequences for thousands
of plants and the entire Armenian economy, Ter-Petrossian said.
As for the tragic events of last March, he claimed that the authorities
had done nothing to find the real culprits in the death of ten people.
In the opinion of the opposition, "any change of administration must
be constitutional, i.e. new authorities must be elected as the only
guarantee of a law-governed and democratic state," he said.
The next rally of the opposition is due on May 1, but it may be held
even earlier, Ter-Petrossian noted.
Itar-Tass
March 2 2009
Russia
YEREVAN, March 1 (Itar-Tass) -- No incidents happened in the Sunday
march and rally of the Armenian radical opposition in Yerevan. The
actions, which drew 8,000 and 5,000 people correspondingly, were
initially banned by the city administration.
The participants laid flowers to the monument to first Soviet Armenian
premier Alexander Myasnikian, next to which protesters clashed with
the police on March 1-2, 2008.
Opposition leader and first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrossian
focused his speech on the world financial and economic crisis.
"Armenian authorities have not informed the public of the essence and
the scale of the economic crisis. Obviously, they want to calm down
people and to avoid panic," he said. "At first they were doing that
with false promises of the construction of a new nuclear power plant,
a railroad between Armenia and Iran and the creation of an all-Armenian
bank. Now they are telling people about the upcoming loans from Russia,
China and the World Bank."
The government will soon have to stop supporting the national currency,
which will go down abruptly and have harmful consequences for thousands
of plants and the entire Armenian economy, Ter-Petrossian said.
As for the tragic events of last March, he claimed that the authorities
had done nothing to find the real culprits in the death of ten people.
In the opinion of the opposition, "any change of administration must
be constitutional, i.e. new authorities must be elected as the only
guarantee of a law-governed and democratic state," he said.
The next rally of the opposition is due on May 1, but it may be held
even earlier, Ter-Petrossian noted.